Learning Data Science: Predictive Maintenance with Decision Trees


Predictive Maintenance is one of the big revolutions happening across all major industries right now. Instead of changing parts regularly or even only after they failed it uses Machine Learning methods to predict when a part is going to fail.

If you want to get an introduction to this fascinating developing area, read on!
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World Cup 2022: My Prediction for Germany in the Group Stage (also as a Video)!


Predicting football (a.k.a. soccer) games based on statistical models has been one of my hobbies for many years now.

Here, I will give you my prediction for Germany in the group stage of the World Cup 2022 with full R-code, so read on!
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Which Gender is associated with this Name? R to the R-escue!


When addressing somebody unknown to you with an uncommon name e.g. in an email you might not know whether this person is male or female. In this post, we make it a little fun project to let R help us with that, so read on!
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